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Solis Marine Consultants
Temple Chambers
3-7 Temple Avenue
London 

EC4Y 0DA


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Nigel Clark

Chairman

 

Nigel is the Solis Marine Chairman and brings to the Group a significant amount of executive and senior management level experience gained over more than 30 years within the marine consulting and offshore energy sectors. He is primarily responsible for assisting and advising the Partners and members of the senior management team on all strategic matters and for providing support to the implementation of the Group’s plans for growth.


Nigel was previously the Managing Director of a leading Marine Consultant and Surveyors where he led the sale of the business before overseeing a period of growth, introducing new service lines to the business to complement the traditional core activities. He was also previously Group Finance Director at a private equity backed multi-disciplinary Marine and Offshore Engineering Consultancy, and he has held the position of Strategic Director for the Technical Services Division of a leading UK listed shipping services group.


Nigel has a BA(Hons) degree in Business and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

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Captain John Simpson

Senior Partner

Master Mariner STCW II/2.1
Member of the Lloyd’s panel of Special Casualty Representatives (SCR)
Younger Brother of London Trinity House
Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute
Freeman of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners 


 

John is a master mariner having substantial experience in command and as a first class pilot in the UK. He has acted as a nautical assessor to the High Court of Hong Kong and given expert evidence in London Arbitrations and Court in Hong Kong, Canada, Indonesia and Israel, during criminal and civil cases. He has provided expert reports on collisions, groundings, unsafe ports and berths, use of tugs and manoeuvring issues, seaworthiness, cargo loss, shift and stowage, performance claims due to bad weather, personal injury and death, pollution incidents and fouling of submarine pipelines and cables.


As well as acting as SCR he has also attended a number of high profile and politically sensitive salvage and wreck removals in Europe, Canada, South America, China, Philippines and Indonesia. During these operations he has been heavily involved from the initial preparation of the tenders through the oil, pollutants and cargo removal and storage to attendance during the clearance of the wreck site.


John was also a consultant mariner, based in London, for a leading firm of international marine consultants which included establishing and running the Hong Kong office as director where he built up a busy base. After returning to London he resumed his former role becoming a director.


As a pilot on the River Humber in the UK, John has manoeuvred and anchored all types of vessels, including cape size and panamax bulk carriers and tankers through narrow channels to terminals in a river having a large tidal range and strong currents. Passage planning included the calculation of minimum depths for transit and under keel clearance, tug type and allocation followed by conducting vessels in and out of river berths and enclosed docks in all states of weather and tide. He has also undertaken pilotage of vessels over 300,000 tonnes deadweight to FPSOs and SPMs. 


Command experience includes ocean towage and salvage in West Africa and extensive towage and anchor handling in all sectors of the North Sea, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and West Africa. Tows included disabled vessels, semi-submersible and jack-up rigs and all types of barges for the offshore sector. These operations involved carrying out own pilotage in many modern and undeveloped ports in the regions of operation.


John was also a contracts manager for a dredging operator undertaking pre and post dredge surveys, during maintenance dredging projects in ports around the UK. This followed experience as a watch keeping officer trading worldwide on refrigerated cargo, general cargo carrying break bulk, container and bulk cargoes.

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Chris Gascoigne CEng CMarENG

Partner, Head of Marine Engineering Services, General Manager (UK)


 

Class One Marine Engineer STCW III/2

Chartered Engineer and Chartered Marine Engineer

Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology

Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

 

 

Chris is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. Having served at sea and worked ashore in other technical roles, he first entered marine consultancy in 2008, and progressed to heading the UK marine engineering department of another leading marine consultancy. Chris joined Solis Marine Consultants in July 2021.


His surveying and consultancy experience includes main and auxiliary machinery failure and damage investigations, collision damages, bunker disputes, ship’s crane damages, fires and explosions, salvage and wreck removal. He applies a forensic, open-minded and balanced approach to his investigative work, with health, safety, environmental and human elements as other key considerations. Chris has attended mediation and given expert evidence at arbitration and in court.


At sea, he served on numerous cruise vessels, ro-ro’s, tugs and a dredger. He achieved his Class One Certificate of Competency (Motor) and has a broad experience of diesel, steam and diesel/steam electric propulsion systems and auxiliaries.


Other shore-based experience have included the commissioning of power generation and prime mover control systems, including gas turbines and dual fuel engines. He has also been involved in new-build, state-of-the-art environmental systems design, and in the development, trials and implementation of environmentally acceptable lubricants and hydraulic fluids.


Through his consultancy, he continues to be engaged with the environmental aspects of shipping, including through compliance surveys and other related matters, such as pollution investigations and discretionary claims.

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Duncan Campbell MEng, CEng, MRINA

Associate, Naval Architect, AIS & VDR Analyst


 

University of Strathclyde & University of Glasgow

Master of Engineering in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering with merit 2009

Member of Royal Institution of Naval Architects 2016

Chartered Engineer (UK) 2017

 

  

Duncan is a naval architect providing consultancy services to marine and offshore clients focussing on hydrostatic stability and strength analysis, casualty management and project risk management, and AIS and VDR investigations into shipping incidents.


In his previous role as a surveyor, at a leading IACS classification society, he was involved in vessel surveys including annual, intermediate and special surveys and various damage surveys as well as equipment certification. Prior to working as a surveyor Duncan has worked as a naval architect for various companies where he has been involved in many projects ranging from new build plan approval, stability analysis, damage inspection, repair specification and supervision, vessel modifications and strength analysis.


Duncan has also worked extensively with the analysis of AIS and VDR data to
provide visual representations of vessel movements for use in collision, casualty and traffic analyses.

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Paul Walton AFNI

Consultant Master Mariner

Master Mariner STCW II/2.1

Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute

Lead Auditor (ISO 9001, ISM, ISPS)

Member of the Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors



 

Paul brings many years of experience as master of panamax, handymax, and handysize bulk carriers and ship management ashore. Cargo specialisation has included carriage of ores, coal, grain, steel products, timber and forestry products, container, cement, cars and trailers, project cargoes and heavy lifts.


Paul has given expert oral evidence in the High Courts of London and Hong Kong and during arbitration tribunals in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has also acted as a nautical assessor to the High Court of Hong Kong.


As a marine consultant, Paul has spent time in the London market as well as a number of years in Hong Kong as director of a busy office for an international firm of consultants. Instructions have taken him to all parts of Europe, Africa, Indian Sub-Continent and Asia for site attendances involving many types of marine incidents.


Paul has prepared expert reports and advice on issues relating to bulk and break-bulk cargoes including liquefaction incidents, unsafe port/berth claims and unseaworthiness. He has also investigated groundings, collisions, ISM, ISPS and navigation issues.


Paul has also carried out Hull and Machinery and condition surveys on a wide variety of vessel types.

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John Boyd IEng, IMarENG, MIMarEST

Consultant Marine Engineer


John is a consultant marine engineer with over 50 years of experience gained at sea and ashore. A steam and motor chief engineer, he has also provided expert reports in a number of machinery claims and given expert evidence in arbitration.


John has carried out investigations on behalf of insurers and investigated breakdowns and equipment failure on all types of vessels.


His seagoing experience, from junior to chief engineer, was on general cargo, container vessels and chemical tankers. He then became an engineering superintendent of jack-up and semi-submersible offshore drilling units and drill ships, working out of Chile, Brazil, Singapore and the North Sea (UK).


John later became a surveyor and loss adjuster undertaking energy and offshore related claims for a fully owned subsidiary of The Salvage Association. More recently John has worked as a surveyor with the Salvage Association, renamed BMT Marine & Offshore Surveys which became part of the Braemar Technical Services group.

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Paul Bryan

Consultant Master Mariner

Master Mariner STCW II/2.1

Society of Offshore Marine Warranty Surveyors No. 0209. Oil & Gas / Project Cargo



Paul is a master mariner with extensive experience and has spent over 17 years as a Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) and consultant within the oil and gas industry working with oil majors. He joined Solis Marine Consultants in January 2021 after being based in the Middle East with a major international marine consultancy. Much of that work was with oil and gas projects which required attendances worldwide. As a project leader, Paul provides management and full oversight of maritime projects in all the areas of his expertise which included many vessel surveys.


Paul’s principal activities concerned the provision of MWS services for large onshore and offshore energy projects. Typically, this required the review of all marine related procedures and attendances both onshore and offshore to approve and witness critical operations as outlined below.

  • Review of lifting, load-out/load-in, transport and towage procedures.
  • Attend project meetings, risk assessments and HAZIDs.
  • Attend onshore as MWS on site for load-outs, load-ins and sailaways.
  • Attend offshore for jacket, deck and sub-sea installation works.


Paul has acted as the representative of insurers and insured interests on several high-profile wreck removal projects including ‘CP VALOUR’, ‘SIERRA NAVA’ and ‘COSTA CONCORDIA’.


Paul also served as a first class pilot in the rivers Humber, Trent and Ouse in the UK where he manoeuvred all types of vessels to river berths and docks in all weather conditions and tidal currents with and without tugs. That work also involved transiting narrow channels with minimum under keel clearance when necessary.


As a deck officer he gained experience on anchor handling vessels, dredgers, reefers, Ro-Ro’s and product carriers.

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Mark Ball BEng MEng CEng MICE

Consultant Maritime Civil Engineer

 

Mark is a senior maritime civil engineer who specialises in providing consultancy services to P&I Clubs, insurers, lawyers, ship owners and managers, port and terminal owners and operators.


Mark’s principal activities concern the inspection of damages to maritime and marine structures and mechanical handling equipment on a worldwide basis.  He provides advice on causation, the nature and extent of damage, methods of repair and quantum, review of business interruption and loss of use together with providing engineering expertise including liaison with contractors and co-ordination of repairs works. 


In addition to the investigation of damages to ports and harbours Mark has extensive experience of investigation of storm and other damages to marinas worldwide.


Mark has specialist experience in unsafe port and berth investigations and has prepared expert reports in respect of unsafe ports and berths for High Court and Arbitration proceedings and has given expert evidence in the High Court in London, the Appeal Court in Bergen, Norway and High Court in Cape Town, South Africa.


Mark also has specialist experience in seabed remediation following vessel groundings and wreck removals including preparation of the ITT, selection of contractors, contract negotiation and management and supervision of the works.


Since 2001, Mark has worked for international marine consultancies in senior positions. Prior to that, he gained more than a decade of specialist experience in the design and construction of major international multi-disciplinary projects such as ports and harbours, tank farms, oil import and export facilities, marinas, immersed tube road tunnels. Those operations also included design, site supervision and management.

His experience includes:


  • Property and business interruption claims
  • Suspended deck quays and jetties
  • Mooring and berthing dolphins – rigid and flexible, multi or single (mono) pile
  • Fenders, bollards and mechanical mooring equipment
  • Sea and river walls – steel sheet piles, blockwork, concrete caissons
  • Breakwaters – solid, rubble mound, caisson
  • Pipelines
  • Pipe-racks
  • Quayside Loading / Unloading and Mechanical Handling Equipment
  • Marine Loading Arms
  • Ship to shore cranes
  • Shiploaders and Conveyors
  • Single Point and Conventional Buoy Moorings (SPM and CBM)
  • Bridges, Ro-Ro Ramps and Linkspans
  • Locks and Lock Gates
  • Marina Damage involving Pontoons, catenary moorings, mooring piles, bridges, lock gates


Mark Ball’s services are provided by Integra Technical Services Limited.

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M: +44 (0) 7384 110567


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